netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Bonding simplifications and netns support

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Message-Id: <20091030.124153.00934819.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:41:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fubar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Bonding simplifications and netns support

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:16:54 -0700

> I recently had it pointed out to me that the bonding driver does not
> work in a network namespace.  So I have simplified the bonding driver
> a bit, added support for ip link add and ip link del, and finally made
> the bonding driver work in multiple network namespaces.
> 
> The most note worthy change in the patchset is the addition of support
> in the networking core for registering a sysfs group for a device.
> 
> Using this in the bonding driver simplifies the code and removes a
> userspace race between actions triggered by the netlink event and the
> bonding sysfs attributes appearing.

I've tossed patches 1-7 into net-next-2.6, thanks Eric.
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